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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

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One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an uncountable number of awful things) is that war’s direct role in the extinction of two species of rail. The loss of these two species was, in fact, no aberration, except in how late the extinctions were.

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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The USVI are smaller and have fewer habitats and, as a result, fewer bird species. territories are Guam (pop. Puerto Rico has a checklist of 269 species, 207 of which are migratory and the USVI has a checklist of 149 species, 124 of which are migratory. Postal Service. The only other populated U.S.